Scrambling shrub, branches hirsute by long spreading, and short hairs, intermixed with very few ± sessile glandular-capitate hairs, or big woody climber, stem 2½ cm ø, reaching to 20 m up a tree; leafy branches scattered all the way up. Leaves oblong-elliptic, not bullate, but nerves and reticulations impressed above, base rounded, apex short-acuminate, 6-11 by 2¾-5 cm, glabrous above except the base of the midrib, spreading-hirsute underneath on nerves and reticulations, and with short-stalked, sparse capitate-glandular hairs, edge ± flat, fimbriate by ± 2 mm long hairs; nerves 5-6 pairs; petiole 5-7 mm, yellow-hairy. Peduncles axillary, 1½-3½ cm, yellow-hairy, 2-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceolate, ± 3 mm, hairy, as long as the ovary, twice as long as the ovate-acuminate, 1½-2 mm similar bracteoles. Flowers hairy, white fading to pale yellow, 5-6, cm long. Calyx-tube urceolate drying bluish, glabrous, teeth linear, hirsute, 1½-2 mm long. Corolla-tube 3½-4½ cm long, very thin (1-1½ mm diam.), straight, hirsute by reflexed rather appressed, setaceous yellow hairs, eglandular, yellow-strigose inside, upper lip strongly in-rolled-recurved, ± 15 by 3½-4 mm, lobes ovate blunt, ± 2 mm, lower lip spreading, ca 6 by 1 mm. Filaments glabrous, ± 2½ cm exserted, anthers 3 mm, linear. Style glabrous, long-exserted, 7½-8 cm, stigmatic knob distinct. Fruit globular, c. 5-8 mm ø, black, juicy. Seeds 1-4, c. 4 mm long, ± convex, surface wrinkled.
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